Write that book!
A weekend 'Boot Camp' for writers in a lovely Victorian mansion on the Free State veld.
So you want to write that book?
Don't believe anyone who tells you that you can't learn to write.
Hamilton Wende is an award-winning writer and journalist. He has published six books, fiction and non-fiction, ranging from The Quagga's Secret, a children's picture book, to Deadlines from the Edge, an account of his travels as a reporter, to his most recent novel brought out by Penguin, House of War, a thriller based in Afghanistan. He has been a regular guest lecturer in creative writing and non-fiction narrative at Wits, Rhodes and UCT.
The Prynnsberg programme is proud to partner with Hamilton Wende to create a unique and exciting writer's workshop. Prynnsberg is one of the great old houses of Africa; a Victorian masterpiece, built by diamond magnate Charles Newberry in 1881.
Prynnsberg and its surrounding gardens, chapels and rocky veld is the perfect and inspiring place to spend a creative retreat with Hamilton Wende finding ways to begin, or to finish, that elusive book which has both frustrated and beguiled you for so long now.
The workshop will consist of a series of group discussion and writing exercises designed to progress from one step to the next so that you leave with the real, tangible beginnings of that book you always dreamed about writing.
Unfortunately, there will not be time to read and consider entire manuscripts on the weekend. The workshop is an intensive course that will run from Friday lunchtime to Sunday lunchtime. In the workshops we will look at:
- How, where to begin?
- Voice, style, originality, language
- Plot, narrative structure, the logic of story-telling
- Fiction or non-fiction?
- Manuscripts, editing, making your final draft the best it can be
- How and where to find a publisher
- For more information check out www.hamiltonwende.com and www.prynnsberg.co.za
Space is limited so book now with az.oc.grebsnnyrp@eus
Date: 26 November 2010 to 28 November 2010Venue: Prynnsberg Mansion Eastern Free State, Clocolan
Cost: R4000.00 all meals, accomodation, drinks and writing course